More than 1,000 people have died in an outbreak of meningitis in Nigeria, the Centre for Disease Control said Thursday, but added that the spread of the disease is slowing. The outbreak has mostly affected children in Africa’s most populous country. As of May 9, a total of 13,420 suspected cases had been reported in … Read more
The Ashanti Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Alexis Nang-Beifubah, says it will take disease researchers at least a week to determine the particular type of meningitis that killed four students of the Kumasi Academy. Autopsy report by health authorities in Kumasi showed the four students died of meningitis contrary to speculation that it was … Read more
The Ghana Health Service has intensified processes to identify more cases of pneumococcal meningitis at Kumasi Academy and its environs after it discovered 26 cases of the disease at the school. Autopsy reports of four students who died last month at the school reveal they died from the disease. The deaths of the students caused … Read more
Nigeria has started a mass vaccination programme in a bid to stop an outbreak of meningitis. More than 300 people have died of the disease since late last year. Medical officials are focusing efforts on Zamfara state, in the northwest, which is the centre of the outbreak. Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control says 500,000 vaccinations … Read more
An outbreak of meningitis in several states of Nigeria has killed at least 140 people, officials say. It has been reported over the last week in six states and has so far infected more than 1,000 people, the Abuja Centre for Disease Control says. Meningitis causes an acute inflammation of the outer layers of the … Read more
Five people have died as a result of meningitis in the Upper West region, since the beginning of 2017. It is not yet clear what type of the disease killed them. The cases were reported at the various health posts in the region within the first three weeks of the year. Health officials are currently … Read more
Ghana, on Thursday, received $60,000 worth of laboratory supplies for the testing of meningitis, from the United States-based Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The donation was made under the Lead, Ghana Second Year of life Project (2YL) of the CDC, which forms part of their initiatives in preventing disease spread. Dr Mawuli K. … Read more
Ghana, on Thursday, received $60,000 worth of laboratory supplies for the testing of meningitis, from the United States-based Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The donation was made under the Lead, Ghana Second Year of life Project (2YL) of the CDC, which forms part of their initiatives in preventing disease spread. Dr Mawuli K. … Read more
Lead, Ghana Second Year (2YL) of life Project under the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), US, on Thursday donated laboratory drugs worth $60,000 to the Ghana Health Service (GHS). It was part of initiatives in preventing disease spread. Dr Mawuli K. Nyaku, the Head of the 2YL project who presented the donation to … Read more